It's amazing. Long Island, I don't know really. It's quite a fascinating area.

Being a chef never seems like a job, it becomes a true passion.

I won't let people write anything they want to about me.

It's very hard when you eat out every day for a living, and a new restaurant comes along and you haven't got that same vigour that you had 10 years ago.

How many restaurants do we know across the world that customers visit once and once only?

Why can't it be a curriculum? Why can't it be a life skill that they learn just to look after themselves in terms of a healthy way of eating? I think we need to shake up that whole curriculum and give them a little bit more of a lifestyle early on, before they leave school at 18.

I don't think it's a good advert for any restaurant, a fat chef, and secondly, who wants to eat a dessert when the chef's a fat pig.